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qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
89 vs 79
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
86 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM48 GB8 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.6:35b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec129.4188.0
First chunk49 ms108 ms
TTFT49 ms1.2 s
Load time0.0 s7.5 s
Memory usage20.5 GB1.6 GB
Memory %43%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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